Who or that? or both can be used?
Questions of "who or that? or both can be used? ":
1. Who is the girl that /who Mark is talking to? Who is the one who/ that is wearing a red coat?
2. Her first house was a small one which / that provided three square meters for the homeless to live in it. Can we also omit "in it"?
3. There is no place for the homeless to live. Is the sentence right grammatically? Add a word "in" after " live", and it will be correct, right?
Top answer
1. Whom Mark is talking to. Mark is talking to her.
- 1.
- Whom Mark is talking to.
- Mark is talking to her.
- Whom replaces her.
- 1b.
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1. Whom Mark is talking to. Mark is talking to her. Whom replaces her.
1b. Who is wearing a sweater (replacing she is wearing a sweater) because it's a person.
Even still, natives often say that for people when the correct one sounds funny.
2. Which when information is non essential. That when information is essential. Remove in it.
3. Correct. Correct.
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